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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ”’

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Half-German, Half-Chinese, Half-Canadian, all-bad at math, currently living to her consternation in the People's Republic of China.

Formerly @zdl, but de-USAifying my social media servers.

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  1. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    If I'm reading the numbers at isaiprofitable.com/ right, every man, woman, child, or other on Earth would have to spend nearly $100 **right now** for the AI bubble to break even.

    If we restrict this to the US, that goes to $2250. If we put the burden on the EU that's a bit lower at $1750.

    That's right now. In the time that it has taken me to compose this, the bubble rose approximately 7 million dollars.

  2. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    And a new chop reading ็ฆ…่Œถไธ€ๅ‘ณ (chรกn chรก yฤซ wรจi, "Zen and Tea are One Flavor").

    Just to be clear this is not one of mine. I'm nowhere near good enough to make a chop that looks like this. I get chops for a few reasons:

    1. I like them. (Really I think the only reason I need.)
    2. Research material as I see how the characters from my seal script dictionary get squished down into the chop form.
    3. Did I mention I like them? They're wonderfully decorative.

  3. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    Oh look. Another American decided to go shoot up some people Just Becauseโ„ข. This is such a rare event it's completely shocking. I'm sure the government is going to go all-out in preventing more such shootings by thinking and praying really, really hard.

    I mean it's day 139 and there's only been ~152 mass shootings so far this year, so those thoughts and prayers are working hard!

    thebeaverton.com/2015/10/mass-

    theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent

  4. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    CNN has a headline: "Why are US rappers getting involved in UK politics?"

    First thing that leaped to mind: "Because Americans are constitutionally incapable of keeping their noses out of things that don't involve them."

  5. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    I see it's TACO Tuesday again.

    edition.cnn.com/2026/05/18/pol

  6. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    Another sunny weekend, another photo essay on tea.

    pxlfd.ca/p/ZDL/961152748537083

  7. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    Silly question, I'm sure, but why do so many American talking heads love to use the /ส’/ (the 's' in 'pleasure') when speaking about China? It's Bei/ส’/ing for Beijing and President /ส’/i for President Xi? The real sounds in IPA are /tษ•/ and /ษ•/ accordingly but can be better approximated as "bay-jing" and President "she" in English.

    Yet everybody wants that weird /ส’/ sound, ironically a sound that is PHENOMENALLY DIFFICULT for the Chinese to pronounce.

    (Hint: the term is "hyperforeignism".)

  8. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    The sketch over the "China Expert" had me laughing so hard my colleagues were eyeing me with concern: youtube.com/watch?v=5GWIgqrUIdI

  9. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    So this is what it feels like to realize that a pu'er you got when it was 10 years old is now 18 years old because you completely forgot that it existed!

    I'd finally run out of a very young compressed tea (jammed into a bamboo tube) and went to my basket for a white tea cake only to realize I had *another* cake of a large-leaf Yunnan tea buried at the bottom of the stack that had been sitting there for 8 years quietly aging.

    #aged #puer #tea
  10. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    Getting stressed out by the world unravelling around you? Has the doomscrolling raised your blood pressure?

    Here: Have seven minutes and twenty-five seconds of contemplative bliss, gratis.

    youtube.com/watch?v=-Zn79JZr5nw

    #guqin #chinesemusic
  11. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆŽ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @ZDL ยท

    When decide to have a bit of fun.

    youtube.com/watch?v=YhNrh6_MmRs

    Uptown Funk, with Isabelle Huang on Drums.

    #oddball #chinese #pop #stars